TL;DR; AI doesn’t break STRIDE. It breaks the idea that systems have fixed roles. Agentic AI systems built on LLMs don’t behave like traditional components. They act like users, services, and data pipelines at the same time, often crossing trust boundaries. MAESTRO provides a layered way to model those risks across modern AI systems. In practice, you’ll end up using both—and treating AI agents lik...
The article presents a compelling case for the limitations of traditional threat modeling frameworks like STRIDE when applied to modern agentic AI systems. The core argument is that AI systems, particularly those built on LLMs, defy the fixed roles assumed by STRIDE, acting as dynamic entities that cross trust boundaries in unpredictable ways. This challenges the foundational assumptions of threat modeling, which historically relied on clearly defined system components and predictable behaviors....